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Ioue cals a vision vp, from Somnus den;
To bid Atrides, muster vp his men.
The king (to Greekes dissembling his desire)
Perswades them to their countrie to retire.
By Pallas will, Vlysses stayes their flight;
And wise old Nestor, heartens them to fight.
They take their meate: which done, to armes they goes
And march in good array, against the foe.
So those of Troy, when Iris, from the skie,
Of Saturns sonne, performs the Ambassie.

Another Argument.

Beta, the dreame and Synod cites,
And catalogues the nauall knights.

The other Gods, and knights at armes, all night slept: onely Ioue,

Iupiter carefull in performing his vow to Thetis.

Sweet slumber seisd not; he discourst, how best he might approue
His vow made for Achilles grace, and make the Grecians find
His misse, in much death. Alwaies cast; this coūsel seru'd his mind
With most allowance: to dispatch, a harmefull dreame to greet
The king of men; and gaue this charge: Go, to the Achiue fleet,

Iupiter cals vp a vision.

(Pernicious dreame) and being arriu'd, in Agamemnons tent,
Deliuer truly all this charge; command him to conuent
His whole hoast arm'd, before these towres; for now Troys broad-waid towne
He shall take in: the heauen-housd Gods, are now indifferent growne,
Iunos request hath wonne them: Troy, now vnder imminent ils,
At all parts labours. This charge heard, the vision straight fulfils;
The ships reacht, and Atrides tent, in which he found him laid;
Diuine sleepe powrd about his powres. He stood aboue his head
Like Nestor (grac't, of old men, most) and this did intimate:

Sleepes the wise Atreus-tame-horse sonne? a counsellour of State,

The vision to Agamemnon.

Must not, the whole night, spend in sleepe; to whom the people are,
For guard committed; and whose life, stands bound to so much care.
Now heare me then, (Ioues messenger,) who, though farre off from thee,
Is neare thee yet; in ruth, and care: and giues command by me,
To arme thy whole hoast. Thy strong hand, the broad-waid towne of Troy,
Shall now take in: no more the Gods, dissentiously imploy
Their high-housd powers: Iunos suite, hath wonne them all to her;
And ill fates ouer-hang these towres, addrest by Iupiter.

Fixe in thy mind this; not forget, to giue it action, when
Sweet sleepe shall leaue thee. Thus he fled, and left the king of man

Agamemnon discourseth of his vision.

Repeating, in discourse, his dreame; and dreaming still, awake,
Of powre, not readie yet for act. O foole, he thought to take
In that next day, old Priams towne; not knowing what affaires
Ioue had in purpose; who prepar'd, (by strong fight) sighes and cares
For Greekes, and Troians. The dreame gone, his voice still murmured
About the kings cares: who sate vp, put on him, in his bed,
His silken inner weed; faire, new, and then in hast arose;
Cast on his ample mantle, tied, to his soft feet faire shoes;
His siluer-hilted sword he hung, about his shoulders, tooke
His fathers scepter, neuer staind: which then abroad he shooke,

The morning.

And went to fleete. And now great heauen, Goddesse Aurora, scall'd
To Ioue, and all Gods, bringing light. When Agamemnon call'd
His heralds, charging them aloud, to call to instant Court
The thicke-haird Greekes. The heralds call'd, the Greekes made quicke resort:
The Councell chiefly he composd, of old great minded men,
At Nestors ships, the Pylian king: all there assembled then,

Agamemnon.

Thus Atreus sonne begunne the Court: Heare friends, a dreame diuine,
Amids the calme night in my sleepe, did through my shut eyes shine,
Within my fantasie: his forme, did passing naturally
Resemble Nestor: such attire, a stature iust as hie.
He stood aboue my head; and words, thus fashiond, did relate.

Agamemnon tels his vision.

Sleepes the wise Atreus-tame-horse sonne? A counsellor of state
Must not, the whole night spend in sleepe; to whom the people are
For guard committed; and whose life, stands bound to so much care.
Now heare me then, (Ioues messenger,) who, though farre off from thee,
Is neare thee yet, in loue, and care: and giues command by me,
To arme thy whole hoast. Thy strong hand, the broad-waid towne of Troy,
Shall now take in: no more the Gods, dissentiously imploy
Their high-housd powres: Saturnias suite, hath wonne them all to her;
And ill fates ouer-hang these towres, addrest by Iupiter.
Fixe in thy mind this. This exprest, he tooke wing and away;
And sweet sleepe left me: let vs then, by all our meanes assay,
To arme our armie; I will first, (as farre as fits our right)
Trie their addictions, and command, with full-sail'd ships our flight:
Which if they yeeld to, oppose you. He sate; and vp arose
Nestor, of sandy Pylos, king: who, (willing to dispose
Their counsell to the publicke good) proposd this to the State:

Nestor to the Greekes.

Princes, and Counsellors of Greece? If any should relate
This vision, but the king himselfe; it might be held a tale,
And moue the rather our retraite: but since our Generall
Affirmes he saw it, hold it true; and all our best meanes make
To arme our armie. This speech vsde, he first the Councell brake;
The other scepter-bearing States, arose to, and obeyd
The peoples Rector. Being abroad, the earth was ouerlaid
With flockers to them, that came forth: as when, of frequent Bees

Simile.

Swarmes rise out of a hollow rocke, repairing the degrees

Of their egression endlesly; with euer rising new,
From forth their sweet nest: as their store, still as it faded, grew,
And neuer would ceasse sending forth, her clusters to the spring
They still crowd out so; this flocke here; that there, be labouring
The loaded flowres. So from the ships, and tents, the armies store,
Troopt to these Princes, and the Court; along th' vnmeasur'd shore:
Amongst whom, Ioues Ambassadresse, (Fame) in her vertue shin'd,

Fame, Ioues ambassadresse.

Exciting greedinesse to heare. The rabble thus inclin'd,
Hurried together; vprore seisd, the high Court; earth did grone
Beneath the setling multitude; tumult was there alone.
Thrise three voiciferous heralds rose, to checke the rout, and get
Eare to their Ioue-kept Gouernors; and instantly was set
That huge confusion; euery man, set fast, and clamor ceast:
Then stood diuine Atrides vp, and in his hand comprest
His scepter, th' elaborate worke, of fierie Mulciber:

The scepter of Agamemnon.

Who gaue it to Saturnian Ioue; Ioue to his messenger;
His messenger (Argicides,) to Pelops, skild in horse;
Pelops, to Atreus chiefe of men; he dying, gaue it course
To Prince Thyestes, rich in heards; Thyestes to the hand
Of Agamemnon renderd it, and with it, the command
Of many Iles, and Argos, all. On this he leaning, said:

O friends, great sonnes of Danaus, seruants of Mars; Ioue laid

Agamemnon to the Greekes.

A heauie curse on me, to vow, and binde it with the bent
Of his high forehead; that (this Troy, of all her people spent)
I should returne; yet now to mocke, our hopes, built on his vow:
And charge ingloriously my flight; when such an ouerthrow
Of braue friends, I haue authored. But to his mightiest will
We must submit vs; that hath raz't, and will be razing still,
Mens footsteps, from so many townes; because his power is most,
He will destroy most. But how vile, such, and so great an hoast,
Will shew to future times? that matcht, with lesser numbers farre,
We flie, not putting on the crowne, of our so long-held warre?
Of which, there yet appeares no end. Yet should our foes and we
Strike truce, and number both our powers; Troy taking all that be
Her arm'd inhabitants; and we, in tens should all sit downe
At our truce banquet: euerie ten, allow'd one of the towne
To fill his feast-cup; many tens, would their attendant want:
So much I must affirme, our power, exceeds th' inhabitant.
But their auxiliarie bands; those brandishers of speares,
(From many cities drawne) are they, that are our hinderers;
Not suffering well-raisd Troy to fall. Nine yeares are ended now,
Since Ioue our conquest vow'd, and now, our vessels rotten grow,
Our tackling failes, our wiues, yong sonnes, sit in their doores, and long
For our arriuall: yet the worke, that should haue wreakt our wrong,
And made vs welcome, lies vnwrought: Come then, as I bid, all
Obey, and flie to our lou'd home; for now, nor euer shall
Our vtmost, take in broad-waid Troy. This said, the multitude
Was all for home, and all men else, that what this would conclude

Had not discouerd. All the crowd, was shou'd about the shore;

Simile.

In sway, like rude, and raging waues, rowsd with the feruent blore
Of th' East, and South winds; when they breake, from Ioues clouds, and are borne
On rough backs of th' Icarian seas: or like a field of corne
High growne, that Zephyrs vehement gusts, bring easily vnderneath,
And make the stiffe-vp-bristl'd eares, do homage to his breath:
For euen so easily, with the breath, Atrides vsde, was swaid
The violent multitude. To fleet, with showts, and disaraid,
All rusht; and with a fogge of dust, their rude feete, dimd the day;
Each cried to other, cleanse our ships; come, lanch, aboord, away.
The clamor of the runners home, reacht heauen; and then past fate,
The Greekes had left Troy, had not then, the Goddesse of estate,

Iuno to Pallas.

Thus spoke to Pallas: O foule shame, thou vntam'd seed of Ioue,
Shall thus the seas broad backe be charg'd, with these our friends remoue?
Thus leauing Argiue Hellen here? thus Priam grac't? thus Troy?
In whose fields, farre from their lou'd owne, (for Hellens sake) the ioy,
And life of so much Grecian birth, is vanisht? take thy way
T'our brasse-arm'd people; speake them faire, let not a man obey
The charge now giuen, nor lanch one ship. She said, and Pallas did
As she commanded: from the tops, of heauens steepe hill she slid;
And straight, the Greekes swift ships, she reacht: Vlysses, (like to Ioue
In gifts of counsell) she found out; who, to that base remoue,
Stird not a foote, nor toucht a ship; but grieu'd at heart to see
That fault in others. To him close, the blue-eyd deitie
Made way, and said: Thou wisest Greeke, diuine Laertes sonne,
Thus flie ye homewards, to your ships, shall all thus headlong runne?
Glorie to Priam, thus ye leaue; glorie to all his friends,
If thus ye leaue her here; for whom, so many violent ends
Haue closd your Greeke eyes? and so farre, from their so loued homes
Go to these people, vse no stay; with faire termes ouercome
Their foule endeuour: not a man, a flying saile let hoice.

Thus spake she, and Vlysses knew, twas Pallas by her voice:
Ranne to the runners; cast from him, his mantle, which his man
And Herald, graue Eurybates, the Ithacensian
That follow'd him, tooke vp. Himselfe, to Agamemnon went;
His incorrupted scepter tooke; his scepter of descent;
And with it, went about the fleete. What Prince, or man of name,
He found flight-giuen; he would restraine, with words of gentlest blame;

Vlysses temper in restraining the flight.

Good sir, it fits not you to flie, or fare as one afraid;
You should not onely stay your selfe, but see the people staid.
You know not clearely (though you heard, the kings words) yet his mind,
He onely tries mens spirits now; and whom his trials find
Apt to this course, he will chastise. Nor you, nor I, heard all
He spake in councell: nor durst preasse, too neare our Generall,
Lest we incenst him to our hurt. The anger of a king
Is mightie; he is kept of Ioue, and from Ioue likewise spring
His honors; which, out of the loue, of wise Ioue, he enioyes.
Thus, he the best sort vsd; the worst, whose spirits brake out in noise,

He cudgeld with his scepter, chid, and said: Stay wretch, be still,
And heare thy betters; thou art base, and both in powre and skill
Poore and vnworthie; without name, in counsell, or in warre.
We must not all be kings: the rule, is most irregularre,
Where many rule; one Lord, one king, propose to thee; and he
To whom wise Saturns sonne hath giuen, both law, and Emperie,
To rule the publicke, is that king. Thus, ruling, he restrain'd
The hoast from flight: and then, againe, the Councell was maintain'd
With such a concourse, that the shore, rung with the tumult made;
As when the farre-resounding sea, doth in his rage inuade
His sandie confines; whose sides grone, with his inuolued waue,
And make his owne breast eccho sighes. All sate, and audience gaue;
Thersites onely would speake all. A most disorderd store
Of words, he foolishly powrd out; of which his mind held more
Then it could manage; any thing, with which he could procure
Laughter, he neuer could containe. He should haue yet bene sure
To touch no kings. T'oppose their states, becomes not iesters parts.
But he, the filthiest fellow was, of all that had deserts

Thersites description.

In Troyes braue siege: he was squint-eyd, and lame of either foote:
So crooke-backt, that he had no breast: sharpe headed, where did shoote
(Here and there sperst) thin mossie haire. He most of all enuide
Vlysses and Æacides, whom still his splene would chide;

Achilles.

Nor could the sacred king himselfe, auoid his saucie vaine,
Against whom, since he knew the Greekes, did vehement hates sustaine
(Being angrie for Achilles wrong) he cride out; railing thus:

Atrides? why complainst thou now? what wouldst thou more of vs?

Thersites to Agamemnon.

Thy tents are full of brasse, and dames; the choice of all are thine:
With whom, we must present thee first, when any townes resigne
To our inuasion. Wantst thou then (besides all this) more gold
From Troyes knights, to redeeme their sonnes? whom, to be dearely sold,
I, or some other Greeke, must take? or wouldst thou yet againe,
Force from some other Lord, his prise; to sooth the lusts that raigne
In thy encroching appetite? it fits no Prince to be
A Prince of ill, and gouerne vs; or leade our progenie
By rape to ruine. O base Greekes, deseruing infamie,
And ils eternall: Greekish girls, not Greekes ye are: Come, flie
Home with our ships; leaue this man here, to perish with his preys,
And trie if we helpt him, or not: he wrong'd a man that weys
Farre more then he himselfe in worth: he forc't from Thetis sonne,
And keepes his prise still: nor think I, that mightie man hath wonne
The stile of wrathfull worthily; he's soft, he's too remisse,
Or else Atrides, his had bene, thy last of iniuries.

Thus he the peoples Pastor chid; but straight stood vp to him
Diuine Vlysses; who with lookes, exceeding graue, and grim,

Vlysses to Thersites.

This bitter checke gaue: Ceasse, vaine foole, to vent thy railing vaine
On kings thus, though it serue thee well: nor thinke thou canst restraine,
With that thy railing facultie, their wils in least degree,
For not a worse, of all this hoast, came with our king then thee,

To Troys great siege: then do not take, into that mouth of thine,
The names of kings; much lesse reuile, the dignities that shine
In their supreme states; wresting thus, this motion for our home
To sooth thy cowardise; since our selues, yet know not what will come
Of these designments: if it be, our good, to stay, or go:
Nor is it that thou standst on; thou, reuil'st our Generall so,
Onely, because he hath so much, not giuen by such as thou,
But our Heroes. Therefore this, thy rude veine, makes me vow,
(Which shall be curiously obseru'd) if euer I shall heare
This madnesse from thy mouth againe, let not Vlysses beare
This head, nor be the father cald, of yong Telemachus;
If to thy nakednesse, I take, and strip thee not, and thus
Whip thee to fleete from Councell; send, with sharpe stripes, weeping hence,
This glory thou affectst to raile. This said, his insolence
He setl'd with his scepter; strooke, his backe and shoulders so,
That bloody wales rose; he shrunke round; and from his eyes did flow
Moist teares, and looking filthily, he sate, feard, smarted; dried
His blubberd cheekes; and all the preasse, (though grieu'd to be denied,
Their wisht retrait for home) yet laught, delightsomely, and spake
Either to other: O ye Gods, how infinitely take
Vlysses vertues in our good? author of Counsels, great
In ordering armies: how most well, this act became his heate
To beate from Councell this rude foole? I thinke his sawcie spirit
Hereafter will not let his tongue, abuse the soueraigne merit,
Exempt from such base tongues as his. Thus spake the people: then
The citie-razer, Ithacus, stood vp to speake againe,
Holding his Scepter. Close to him, gray-eyd Minerua stood;
And like a herald, silence causd, that all the Achiue brood
(From first to last) might heare and know, the counsell: when (inclind

Vlysses to Agamemnon and the people.

To all their good) Vlysses said: Atrides, now I find,
These men would render thee the shame, of all men; nor would pay,
Their owne vowes to thee, when they tooke, their free and honord way,
From Argos hither; that till Troy, were by their braue hands rac't,
They would not turne home; yet like babes, and widowes, now they hast
To that base refuge. Tis a spite, to see men melted so
In womanish changes. Though tis true, that if a man do go
Onely a moneth to sea, and leaue, his wife farre off, and he
Tortur'd with winters stormes, and tost, with a tumultuous sea,
Growes heauy, and would home; vs then, to whom the thrice three yeare
Hath fild his reuoluble orbe, since our arriuall here,
I blame not, to wish home, much more: yet all this time to stay
(Out of our iudgements) for our end; and now to take our way
Without it, were absurd and vile. Sustaine then friends, abide,
The time set to our obiect: trie, if Calchas prophecied
True of the time or not. We know, ye all can witnesse well
(Whom these late death-conferring-fates, haue faild to send to hell)
That when in Aulis, all our fleet, assembl'd with a freight
Of ils to Ilion, and her friends: beneath the faire growne height

A Platane bore, about a fount, whence christall water flow'd,
And neare our holy altar, we, vpon the Gods bestow'd
Accomplisht Hecatombs; and there, appear'd a huge portent,
A Dragon with a bloody skale, horride to sight, and sent
To light by great Olympius; which crawling from beneath
The Altar, to the Platane climbd; and ruthlesse crasht to death
A Sparrowes yong, in number eight, that in a top-bow lay
Hid vnder leaues: the dam the ninth, that houerd euery way,
Mourning her lou'd birth; till at length, the Serpent watching her,
Her wing caught, and deuourd her too. This dragon, Iupiter
(That brought him forth) turnd to a stone; and made a powrefull meane
To stirre our zeales vp, that admir'd, when of a fact so cleane
Of all ill as our sacrifice, so fearefull an ostent
Should be the issue. Calchas then, thus prophecied the euent;
Why are ye dumbe strooke, faire-haird Greekes? wise Ioue is he hath showne
This strange ostent to vs. Twas late, and passing lately done,
But that grace it foregoes to vs, for suffering all the state
Of his apparence, (being so slow) nor time shall end, nor fate.
As these eight Sparrowes, and the dam, (that made the ninth) were eate
By this sterne Serpent; so nine yeares, we are t'endure the heate
Of rauenous warre, and in the tenth, take in this broad-waid towne.

Thus he interpreted this signe; and all things haue their crowne
As he interpreted, till now. The rest then, to succeed,
Beleeue as certaine: stay we all, till that most glorious deed
Of taking this rich towne, our hands, are honord with. This said,
The Greekes gaue an vnmeasur'd shout; which backe the ships repaid
With terrible ecchoes, in applause, of that perswasion
Diuine Vlysses vsd; which yet, held no comparison
With Nestors next speech, which was this: O shamefull thing! ye talke

Nestor to the Greeks.

Like children all, that know not warre. In what aires region walke
Our oathes, and couenants? Now I see, the fit respects of men
Are vanisht quite; our right hands giuen, our faiths, our counsels vaine;
Our sacrifice with wine; all fled, in that prophaned flame
We made to bind all: for thus still, we vaine perswasions frame,
And striue to worke our end with words; not ioyning stratagemes
And hands together; though thus long, the powre of our extremes
Hath vrg'd vs to them. Atreus sonne? firme as at first howre stand:
Make good thy purpose; talke no more, in counsels, but command
In actiue field. Let two or three, that by themselues aduise,
Faint in their crowning; they are such, as are not truly wise.
They will for Argos, ere they know, if that which Ioue hath said
Be false or true. I tell them all, that high Ioue bowd his head
As first we went aboord our fleet, for signe we should confer
These Troians, their due fate and death; almightie Iupiter,
All that day darting forth his flames, in an vnmeasur'd light,
On our right hands; let therefore none, once dreame of coward flight,
Till (for his owne) some wife of Troy, he sleepes withall; the rape
Of Hellen wreaking; and our sighes, enforc't for her escape.

If any yet dare dote on home, let his dishonor'd hast
His blacke, and well-built barke but touch, that (as he first disgrac't
His countries spirit) fate, and death, may first his spirit let go.
But be thou wise (king) do not trust, thy selfe, but others. Know
I will not vse an abiect word: see all thy men arraid
In tribes and nations; that tribes, tribes; nations may nations aid:
Which doing, thou shalt know, what chiefs, what souldiers play the men;
And what the cowards: for they all, will fight in seuerall then,
(Easie for note.) And then shalt thou, if thou destroist not Troy,
Know if the prophecies defect, or men thou dost employ
In their approu'd arts, want in warre: or lacke of that braue heate
Fit for the ventrous spirits of Greece, was cause to thy defeate.

Agamemnon to Nestor.

To this the king of men replied; O father, all the sonnes
Of Greece thou conquerst, in the strife, of consultations.
I would to Ioue, Athenia, and Phœbus, I could make
(Of all) but ten such Counsellers; then instantly would shake
Kings Priams citie; by our hands, laid hold on, and laid wast.
But Ioue hath orderd I should grieue, and to that end hath cast
My life into debates, past end. My selfe, and Thetis sonne,
(Like girles) in words fought for a girle, and I th' offence begunne:
But if we euer talke as friends, Troys thus deferred fall
Shall neuer vexe vs more one houre. Come then, to victles all,
That strong Mars, all may bring to field; each man his lances steele
See sharpned well; his shield well lin'd, his horses meated well,
His chariot carefully made strong; that these affaires of death,
We all day may hold fiercely out: no man must rest, or breath.
The bosomes of our targatiers, must all be steept in sweate.
The lanciers arme, must fall dissolu'd; our charriot horse with heate
Must seeme to melt. But if I find, one souldier take the chase,
Or stirre from fight, or fight not still, fixt in his enemies face;
Or hid a shipboord: all the world, for force, nor price, shall saue
His hated life; but fowles, and dogs, be his abhorred graue.

Simile.

He said, and such a murmure rose, as on a loftie shore
The waues make, when the Southwind comes, and tumbles them before
Against a rocke, growne neare the strand, which diuersly beset
Is neuer free; but here and there, with varied vprores beat.

All rose then, rushing to the fleete, perfum'd their tents, and eate:
Each offring to th' immortall Gods, and praying to scape th' heate
Of warre and death. The king of men, an Oxe of fiue yeares spring
T'almightie Ioue slue: call'd the Peeres, first Nestor, then the king
Idomenæus: after them, th' Aiaces, and the sonne

Diomed.

Of Tydeus; Ithacus the sixth, in counsell Paragon
To Ioue himselfe. All these he bad, but at-a-martiall-crie.
Good Menelaus, since he saw, his brother busily
Employd at that time, would not stand, on inuitation,
But of himselfe came. All about, the offring ouerthrowne
Stood round, tooke salt-cakes, and the king, himselfe thus praid for all:

O Ioue, most great, most glorious, that in that starrie hall,

Sit'st drawing darke clouds vp to aire: let not the Sunne go downe,
Darknesse supplying it; till my hands, the Pallace, and the towne
Of Priam ouerthrow, and burne; the armes on Hectors brest
Diuiding; spoiling with my sword, thousands (in interest
Of his bad quarrell) laid by him, in dust, and eating earth.

He pray'd, Ioue heard him not, but made, more plentifull the birth
Of his sad toiles; yet tooke his gifts. Prayres past, cakes on they threw:
The Oxe then (to the altar drawne,) they kill'd, and from him drew
His hide: then cut him vp; his thighes (in two hewne) dubd with fat,
Prickt on the sweet-breads; and with wood, leauelesse, and kindl'd at
Apposed fire, they burne the thighes; which done, the inwards slit,
They broild on coales, and eate. The rest, in giggots cut, they spit,
Roast cunningly, draw, sit, and feast: nought lackt to leaue alaid
Each temperate appetite; which seru'd, Nestor began and said:

Atrides, most grac't king of men, now no more words allow,

Nestor to Agamemnon.

Nor more deferre the deed Ioue vowes. Let heralds summon now
The brasen-coted Greekes; and vs, range euerie where the host,
To stirre a strong warre quickly vp. This speech no sillable lost;
The high-voic't heralds, instantly, he charg'd to call to armes
The curld-head Greeks; they call'd; the Greeks, straight answerd their alarmes.
The Ioue-kept kings, about the king, all gatherd, with their aide
Rang'd all in tribes and nations. With them the gray-eyd maide
Great Ægis (Ioues bright shield) sustain'd, that can be neuer old;
Neuer corrupted, fring'd about, with serpents forg'd of gold,
As many as suffisde to make, an hundred fringes, worth
A hunderd oxen, euerie snake, all sprawling, all set forth
With wondrous spirit. Through the host, with this the Goddesse ranne
In furie, casting round her eyes; and furnisht euerie man
With strength; exciting all to armes, and fight incessant. None
Now lik't their lou'd homes like the warres. And as a fire vpon
A huge wood, on the heights of hils, that farre off hurles his light:
So the diuine brasse shin'd on these, thus thrusting on for fight;
Their splendor through the aire reacht heauen: and as about the flood
Caister, in an Asian meade, flockes of the airie brood,
(Cranes, Geese, or long-neckt Swans) here, there, proud of their pinions flie,
And in their fals lay out such throats, that with their spiritfull crie
The meddow shrikes againe: so here, these many nation'd men,
Flow'd ouer the Scamandrian field; from tents, and ships; the din
Was dreadfull, that the feete of men, and horse, beate out of earth.
And in the florishing meade they stood, thicke as the odorous birth
Of flowres, or leaues bred in the spring; or thicke as swarmes of flies
Throng then to ship-coates; when each swarme, his erring wing applies
To milke deawd on the milke maids pailes: all eagerly disposd,
To giue to ruine th' Ilians. And as in rude heapes closd
Though huge Goate-heards are at their food, the Goate-heards easly yet,
Sort into sundry heards; so here, the Chiefes in battell set,
Here tribes, here nations, ordring all. Amongst whom shin'd the king,
With eyes, like lightning-louing Ioue; his forehead answering,

In breast like Neptune; Mars in waste: and as goodly Bull
Most eminent of all a heard, most strong, most masterfull;
So Agamemnon, Ioue that day, made ouerheighten clere,
That heauen-bright armie; and preferd, to all th' Heroes there.

Inuocation.

Now tell me Muses, you that dwell, in heauenly roofes (for you
Are Goddesses; are present here, are wise, and all things know;
We onely trust the voyce of fame, know nothing:) who they were
That here were captains of the Greekes? Commanding Princes here,
The multitude exceed my song; though fitted to my choice
Ten tongues were, hardned pallats ten, a breast of brasse, a voyce
Infract, and trumplike: that great worke, vnlesse the seed of Ioue
(The deathlesse Muses) vndertake, maintaines a pitch aboue
All mortall powers. The Princes then, and nauie that did bring
Those so inenarrable troopes; and all their soyles, I sing.

The Catalogue of the Grecian ships and Captaines.

The Bœotian captaines.

Peneleus , and Leitus, all that Bœotia bred,
Arcesilaus, Clonius, and Prothoænor, led;
Th' inhabitants of Hyria, and stonie Aulida;
Schæne, Schole, the hilly Eteon, and holy Thespia;
Of Græa, and great Mycalesse, that hath the ample plaine;

The places in Bœotia.

Of Harma, and Ilesius, and all that did remaine,
In Erith, and in Eleon; in Hylen, Peteona,
In faire Ocalea, and the towne, well builded, Medeona;
Capas, Eutresis, Thisbe that, for Pigeons doth surpasse;
Of Coroneia, Harliart; that hath such store of grasse.
All those that in Plateæ dwelt, that Glissa did possesse;
And Hypothebs, whose wel-built wals, are rare and fellowlesse;
In rich Onchestus famous wood, to watrie Neptune vow'd;
And Arne, where the vine-trees are, with vigorous bunches bow'd:
With them that dwelt in Mydea, and Nissa most diuine.
All those whom vtmost Anthedon, did wealthily confine.
From all these coasts in generall, full fiftie saile were sent,

The nauie of the Bœotians fiftie.

And sixscore strong, Bœotian youths, in euerie burthen went.
But those who in Aspledon dwelt, and Mynian Orchomen;

Ascalaphus and Ialmenus, sonnes of Mars.

God Mars his sonnes did leade (Ascalaphus, and Ialmen.)
Who in Azidon Astors house, did of Astioche come;
The bashfull Maide, as she went vp, into the higher roome,
The warre-god secretly comprest: in safe conduct of these,

Their nauie 30.

Did thirtie hollow-bottom'd barkes, diuide the wauie seas.

The Phocensian captains Schedius and Epistrophus.

Braue Schedius and Epistrophus, the Phocean captaines were,
Naubolida, Iphitus sonnes, all-proofe gainst any feare;
With them the Cyparisians went, and bold Pythonians,
Men of religious Chrysas soyle, and fat Daulidians:
Panopæans, Anemores, and fierce Hyampolists:
And those that dwell where Cephisus, casts vp his silken mists.

The men that faire Lylea held, neare the Cephisian spring,
All which did fortie sable barkes, to that designement bring;

Their fleet 40.

About th' entoyld Phocensian fleete, had these their saile assignde:
And neare to the sinister wing, the arm'd Bœotians shinde.

Aiax the lesse, Oileus sonne, the Locrians led to warre,

Aiax, Oielus, captaines of the Locrians.

Not like to Aiax Telamon, but lesser man by farre.
Little he was, and euer wore, a breastplate made of linne;
But for the manage of his lance, he generall praise did winne.
The dwellers of Caliarus, of Bessa, Opoen;

The towns of the Locrians.

The youths of Cynus, Scarphis, and, Augias, louely men;
Of Tarphis, and of Thronius, neare flood Boagrius fall;
Twise twentie martiall barkes of these, lesse Aiax saild withall.

Their nauie 40.

Who neare Eubœas blessed soile, their habitations had,
Strength-breathing Abants, who their seats, in sweet Eubœa made:

Eubœans and their townes.

The Astiæans rich in grapes, the men of Chalcida;
The Cerinths, bordring on the sea, of rich Eretria;
Of Dyons highly-seated towne; Charistus, and of Styre;
All these the Duke Alphenor led, a flame of Mars his fire;

Alphenor their Commander.

Surnam'd Chalcodontiades, the mightie Abants guide;
Swift men of foot, whose broad-set backes, their trailing haire did hide,
Well seene in fight, and soone could pierce, with farre extended darts
The breast plates of their enemies, and reach their dearest hearts.
Fortie blacke men of warre did saile, in this Alphenors charge.

Their fleet 40.

The souldiers that in Athens dwelt, a citie builded large,

The Athenians.

The people of Eristhius, whom Ioue-sprung Pallas fed:
And plentious-feeding Tellus brought, out of her flowrie bed:
Him, Pallas plac't in her rich Fane, and euerie ended yeare,
Of Buls and Lambes, th' Athenian youths, please him with offrings there.
Mightie Menestheus, Peteus sonne, had their deuided care:

Menestheus their Cheife.

For horsemen and for targatiers, none could with him compare:
Nor put them into better place, to hurt or to defend:
But Nestor (for he elder was) with him did sole contend:
With him came fiftie sable saile. And out of Salamine

Naues Attica 50.

Great Aiax brought twelue saile, that with, th' Athenians did combine.

Who did in fruitfull Argos dwell; or strong Hyrintha keepe:

The Salamines ioined with thē. Their leader Aiax Telamonius. Ships 12.

Hermion, or in Asinen, whose bosome is so deepe;
Træzena, Elion, Epidaire, where Bacchus crownes his head;
Egina, and Mazetas soyle, did follow Diomed.
And Sthenelus, the deare lou'd sonne, of famous Capaneus:

The Argiues Diomed their captaine with Sthenelus and Eurialus.

Together with Eurialus, heire of Mecistæus,
The king of Taleonides; past whom, in deeds of warre,
The famous souldier Diomed, of all was held by farre;
Fourescore blacke ships did follow these. The men faire Mycene held:

Their fleet 80. saile. The Myceneans. Their townes.

The wealthy Corinth, Cleon that, for beautious sight exceld:
Arathiræas louely seate, and in Ornias plaine,
And Sicyona, where at first, did king Adrastus raigne:
High seated Gonoessas towers, and Hyperisius;
That dwelt in fruitfull Pellenen, and in diuine Ægius:

With all the sea-side borderers, and wide Helices friends;

Agamemnon captaine. Ships 100.

To Agamemnon euerie towne, her natiue birth commends,
In double fiftie sable barks: with him a world of men
Most strong and full of valure went: and he in triumph then
Put on his most resplendent armes, since he did ouershine
The whole heroique host of Greece, in power of that designe.

The Lacedæmonians and their townes.

Who did in Lacedæmons rule, th' vnmeasur'd concaue hold:
High Phares, Spartas, Messes towers, for doues so much extold;
Bryseias and Augias grounds; strong Laa, Oetylon;
Amyclas, Helos harbor-towne, that Neptune beats vpon:

Menelaus captaine. Ships 60.

All these did Menelaus leade, (his brother that in cries
Of warre was famous) sixtie ships, conuaid these enemies,
To Troy in chiefe; because their king, was chiefly iniur'd there,
In Hellens rape; and did his best, to make them buy it deare.

The Pylians and their townes.

Who dwelt in Pylos sandie soyle, and Arene the faire;
In Thryon, neare Alphæus flood, and Aepy full of aire:
In Cyparisseus, Amphygen, and little Pteleon;
The towne where all the Iliots dwelt, and famous Doreon;
Where all the Muses (opposite, in strife of Poesie,

Thamyris depriued of sight and Poesie by the Muses.

To ancient Thamyris of Thrace) did vse him cruelly;
He coming from Eurytus court, the wise Oechalian king:
Because he proudly durst affirme, he could more sweetly sing,
Then that Pyerean race of Ioue; who (angrie with his vant)
Bereft his eye-sight, and his song, that did the eare enchant;
And of his skill to touch his Harpe, disfurnished his hand:

Nestor captaine. Ships 90.

All these in ninetie hollow keeles, graue Nestor did command.

The Arcadians and their towns.

The richly blest inhabitants of the Arcadian land
Below Cyllenes mount, that by, Epyrus tombe did stand;
Where dwell the bold neare-fighting men; who did in Phæneus liue:
And Orchomen, where flockes of sheepe, the shepheards clustering driue:
In Rypé and in Stratié, the faire Mantinean towne;
And strong Euispe, that for height, is euer weather-blowne;
Tegea, and in Stimphalus; Parrhasia strongly wall'd;

Agapenor their leader.

All these Alcæus sonne, to field (king Agapenor) call'd;

Ships 60.

In sixtie barks he brought them on, and euerie barke well mand,
With fierce Arcadians, skild to vse, the vtmost of a band.
King Agamemnon on these men, did well-built ships bestow,
To passe the gulfie purple sea, that did no sea rites know.

The Epians and their townes.

They who in Hermin, Buphrasis, and Elis did remaine,
What Oleus Cliffes, Alisius, and Myrfin did containe;

Ships 40.

Were led to warre by twise two Dukes, and each ten ships did bring,
Which many venterous Epyans, did serue for burthening.

Beneath Alphimacus his charge, and valiant Talphius,

Captaines Alphimachus, Talphius, Diores Polixenus.

Sonne of Euritus Actor, one; the other Cteatus;
Diores Amarincides, the other did imploy;
The fourth diuine Polixenus, Agastheuis his ioy:

Dulichiaus.

The king of faire Angeiades, who from Dulichians came,
And from Euchinaus sweet Iles, which hold their holy frame

By ample Elis region, Meges Phelides led:

Meges captaine.

Whom Duke Phyleus, Ioues belou'd, begat, and whilome fled
To large Dulychius for the wrath, that fir'd his fathers breast.
Twise twentie ships with Ebon sailes, were in his charge addrest.

Ships 40.

The war-like men of Cephale, and those of Ithaca,

The Cephaleans and their towns.

Wooddy Nerytus, and the men, of wet Crocilia:
Sharpe Ægilipha, Samos Ile, Zacynthus, sea-enclosd;
Epyrus, and the men that hold, the Continent opposd;
All these did wise Vlysses leade, in counsell Peere to Ioue:

Vlysses captaine. Ships. 12.

Twelue ships he brought, which in their course, vermilion sternes did moue.

Thoas, Andremons wel-spoke sonne, did guide th' Etolians well;

The Ætolians their captaines and townes. Thoas captaine.

Those that in Pleuron, Olenon, and strong Pylene dwell:
Great Calcis that by sea-side stands, and stony Calydon;
For now no more of Oeneus sonnes, suruiu'd; they all were gone:
No more his royall selfe did liue, no more his noble sonne,
The golden Meleager; now, their glasses all were run.
All things were left to him in charge, the Ætolians Chiefe he was,
And fortie ships to Troian warres, the seas with him did passe.

Ships. 40.

The royall souldier Idomen, did leade the Cretans stout:

The Cretans, their townes and Captaines.

The men of Gnossus, and the towne, Cortima, wall'd about.
Of Lictus and Myletus towres, of white Lycastus state,
Of Phestus and of Rhistias, the cities fortunate:
And all, the rest inhabiting, the hundred townes of Crete;

Idomeneus. A hundred cities in Crete. Ships 80.

Whom warre-like Idomen did leade, copartner in the fleete,
With kil-man Merion; eightie ships, with them did Troy inuade.

Tlepolemus Heraclides, right strong and bigly made,
Brought nine tall ships of warre from Rhodes, which hautie Rhodians mand,
Who dwelt in three disseuer'd parts, of that most pleasant land;
Which Lyndus and Ialissus were, and bright Camyrus, cald:
Tlepolemus commanded these, in battell vnappald:

Tlepolemus Cōmander of the Rhodians. Ships 9.

Whom faire Astioche brought forth, by force of Hercules;
Led out of Ephyr with his hand, from riuer Sellees;
When many townes of princely youths, he leueld with the ground.

Townes.

Tlepolem (in his fathers house, for building much renownd,
Brought vp to head-strong state of youth) his mothers brother slue,
The flowre of armes, Lycymnius, that somewhat aged grew:
Then straight he gathred him a fleete, assembling bands of men,
And fled by sea, to shun the threats, that were denounced then,
By other sonnes and nephewes of, th' Alciden fortitude.
He in his exile came to Rhodes, driuen in with tempests rude:
The Rhodians were distinct in tribes, and great with Ioue did stand,
The king of men and Gods, who gaue, much treasure to their land.

Nireus, out of Symas hauen, three wel-built barkes did bring;

The Symæans. Nireus their Chiefe, fairest of all the Greekes but Achilles. Ships 3.

Nireus faire Aglaias sonne, and Charopes the king:
Nireus was the fairest man, that to faire Ilion came,
Of all the Greekes, saue Peleus sonne; who past for generall frame.
But weake this was, not fit for warre, and therefore few did guide.

Who did in Cassus, Nisyrus, and Crapathus abide,

The Calydneiās and other Ilanders. Their Chiefe Phydippus and Antiphus. Ships 30.

In Co, Euripilus his towne, and in Calyduas soyles,
Phydippus and bold Antiphus, did guide to Troian toyles;
The sonnes of crowned Thessalus, deriu'd from Hercules,
Who went with thirtie hollow ships, well ordred to the seas.
Now will I sing the sackfull troopes, Pelasgian Argos held,

The Palasgians Thessal. Myrmidons.

That in deepe Alus, Alopé, and soft Trechina dweld;
In Pthya and in Hellade, where liue the louely dames,
The Myrmidons, Helenians, and Achiues, robd of Fames:

Achilles their Captaine. Ships 50.

All which the great Æcides, in fiftie ships did leade.
For, these forgat warres horride voice, because they lackt their head,
That would haue brought them brauely foorth; but now at fleete did lie,
That wind-like vser of his feet, faire Thetis progenie;
Wroth for bright-cheekt Bryseis losse; whom from Lyrnessus spoiles,
(His owne exploit) he brought away, as trophee of his toiles,
When that towne was depopulate; he sunke the Theban towres;
Myneta, and Epistrophus, he sent to Plutoes bowres,
Who came of king Euenus race, great Helepiades:
Yet now he idely liues enrag'd, but soone must leaue his ease.

Philacei, and their townes.

Of those that dwelt in Phylace, and flowrie Pyrrason
The wood of Ceres, and the soyle, that sheepe are fed vpon,
Iten and Antron, built by sea, and Pteleus full of grasse,

Protesilaus captaine.

Protesilaus while he liu'd, the worthie captaine was:
Whom now the sable earth detaines: his teare-torne faced spouse
He wofull left in Philace, and his halfe finisht house:
A fatall Dardane first his life, of all the Greekes, bereft,
As he was leaping from his ship; yet were his men vnleft
Without a Chiefe; for though they wisht, to haue no other man,
But good Protesilay their guide; Podarces yet began
To gouerne them, Iphitis sonne, the sonne of Philacus,
Most rich in sheepe, and brother to, short-liu'd Protesilaus:
Of yonger birth, lesse, and lesse strong; yet seru'd he to direct
The companies, that still did more, their ancient Duke affect.
Twise twentie Iettie sailes with him, the swelling streame did take.

Ships 40.

The Phereians and their townes.

But those that did in Pheres dwell, at the Bæbreian lake,
In Bæbe, and in Glaphira, Iaolcus builded faire:
In thrise sixe ships to Pergamus: did through the seas repaire,

Eumelus captaine. Ships. 11.

With old Admetes tender sonne, Eumelus, whom he bred,
Of Alcest Pelius fairest child, of all his femall seed.

The Methonians and their borderers.

The souldiers that before the siege, Methones vales did hold:
Thaumaciæ, flowrie Meliba, and Olison the cold,

Their chiefe, Philoctetes, left maimed at Lemnos.

Duke Philoctetes gouerned, in darts of finest sleight:
Seuen vessels in his charge conuaid, their honorable freight;
By fiftie rowers in a barke, most expext in the bow:
But he in sacred Lemnos lay, brought miserably low,
By torment of an vlcer growne, with Hydras poyson'd bloud:

Madam Oyleus base sonne, captaine in Philoct. place.

Whose sting was such, Greece left him there, in most impatient moode:
Yet thought they on him at his ship, and chusde to leade his men,
Medon, Oyleus bastard sonne, brought forth to him by Rheu.

From Thricce, bleake Ithomens cliffes, and haplesse Oechaly:

The Thriccians, Ithomeneians, and Oechalians, whose captaines were Podalirius and Machaon. Ships 30.

Eurites citie rul'd by him, in wilfull tyranny,
In charge of Esculapius sonnes, physition highly praisd:
Machaon, Podalirius, were thirtie vessels raisd:

Who neare Hiperias fountaine dwelt, and in Ormenius:

The Ormenians, with their borderers. Their captaine Euripilus. Ships40.

The snowy tops of Titannus, and in Asterius:
Euemons sonne Euripilus, did leade into the field:
Whose townes did fortie blacke-saild ships, to that encounter yeeld.

Who Gyrton, and Argissa held, Orthen and Elons seate,

Argissæans with their borderers. Meneptolemus their chiefe, and Leonteus. Ships 40.

And chalkie Oloossine, were led by Polypete;
The issue of Perithous, the sonne of Iupiter.
Him the Athenian Theseus friend, Hypodamy did beare;
When he the bristled sauages: did giue Ramnusia,
And draue them out of Pelius, as farre as Ethica.
He came not single, but with him, Leonteus, Corons sonne,
An arme of Mars; and Corons life, Ceneus seed begunne.
Twise twentie ships, attended these. Cuneus next did bring,
From Cyphus, twentie saile and two, the Enians following;

The Cyphians, Enians, Peræbians. Their chiefe Guneus. Ships 22.

And fierce Peræbi, that about, Dadones frozen mold,
Did plant their houses, and the men, that did the medowes hold,
Which Titoresius deckes with flowers, and his sweet current leades,
Into the bright Peneius, that hath the siluer heads.
Yet with his admirable streame, doth not his waues commixe;
But glides aloft on it like oyle: for tis the floud of Stix,
By which th' immortall Gods do sweare. Teuthredous honor'd birth

The Magnets. Prothous their chiefe. Ships 40.

Prothous led the Magnets forth, who neare the shadie earth,
Of Pelius, and Peneion, dwelt; fortie reuengefull saile
Did follow him; these were the Dukes, and Princes of auaile,
That came from Greece: but now the man, that ouershin'd them all;
Sing Muse: and their most famous Steeds, to my recitall call,
That both th' Atrides followed; faire Pheretiedes,
The brauest mares, did bring by much; Eumelius manag'd these:

Eumelius had the best mares of the armie.

Swift of their feete as birds of wings; both of one haire did shine,
Both of an age, both of a height, as measur'd by a line:
Whom siluer-bow'd Apollo bred, in the Pierean meade;
Both slicke and daintie, yet were both, in warre of wondrous dread.

Great Aiax Telamon for strength, past all the Peeres of warre,

Aiax Telamonius the strongest Greeke next Achilles. Achilles the best horse.

While vext Achilles was away: but he surpast him farre.
The horse that bore that faultlesse man, were likewise past compare:
Yet lay he at the crookt-stern'd ships, and furie was his fare,
For Atreus sonnes vngracious deed: his men yet pleasd their hearts,
With throwing of the holed stone; with hurling of their darts,
And shooting fairely on the shore. Their horse at chariots fed,
On greatest parsly, and on sedge, that in the fens is bred.
His Princes tents their chariots held, that richly couerd were.
His Princes, amorous of their Chiefe, walkt storming here and there,
About the host, and scorn'd to fight: their breaths, as they did passe,
Before them flew, as if a fire, fed on the trembling grasse.

Earth vnder-gron'd their high raisd feet, as when offended Ioue,
In Artme, Tiphoeus, with ratling thunder droue,
Beneath the earth: in Arime, men say the graue is still,
Where thunder tomb'd Typhoeus, and is a monstrous hill.
And as that thunder made earth grone, so gron'd it as they past,
They trode with such hard-set-downe steps, and so exceeding fast.

Iris to the Troians, from Ioue.

To Troy the rainbow-girded dame, right heauie newes relates,
From Ioue (as all to Councell drew, in Priams Pallace gates)
Resembling Priams sonne in voice, Polytes swift of feet:
In trust whereof (as Sentinell, to see when from the fleet,
The Grecians sallied) he was set, vpon the loftie brow
Of aged Esietes tombe, and this did Iris show;

Iris to Priam.

O Priam thou art alwaies pleasd, with indiscreet aduise:
And fram'st thy life to times of peace, when such a warre doth rise
As threats ineuitable spoyle; I neuer did behold
Such and so mightie troupes of men, who trample on the mold,
In number like Autumnus leaues, or like the marine sand:
All ready round about the walles, to vse a ruining hand.
Hector? I therefore charge thee most, this charge to vndertake:
A multitude remaine in Troy, will fight for Priams sake,
Of other lands and languages; let euerie leader then
Bring forth, well arm'd into the field, his seuerall bands of men.

Strong Hector knew, a deitie, gaue charge to this assay:
Dismist the Councell straight; like waues, clusters to armes do sway:
The ports are all wide open set: out rusht the troopes in swarmes,
Both horse and foote, the citie rung, with suddaine cryed alarmes.

Batieiæ tumulus

A Columne stands without the towne, that high his head doth raise,
A little distant, in a plaine, trod downe with diuers waies:
Which men do Batieia call, but the immortals name
Myrinnes famous sepulcher, the wondrous actiue dame.
Here were th' Auxiliarie bands, that came in Troyes defence,
Distinguisht vnder seuerall guides, of speciall excellence.

The Duke of all the Troian power, great helme-deckt Hector was:

Hector Generall of the Troians. The catalogue of other captaines. Dardans, and Æneas their captaine.

Which stood of many mightie men, well skild in darts of brasse:
Æneas of commixed seed (a goddesse with a man,
Anchises, with the Queene of loue:) the troopes Dardanian,
Led to the field; his louely Site, in Idas lower shade,
Begat him of sweet Cypridis; he solely was not made
Chiefe leader of the Dardan powers: Antenors valiant sonnes,

Archilocus. Acamas.

Archilochus, and Acamas, were ioyn'd companions.

Who in Zelia dwelt, beneath, the sacred foote of Ide,
That drinke of blacke Æsepus streame, and wealth made full of pride;

The Aphnij. Pandarus their leader.

(The Aphnij) Lycaons sonne, whom Phœbus gaue his bow,
(Prince Pandarus) did leade to field. Who Adrestinus owe,

(Apesus citie, Pitai, and mount Tereies)

Adrestians. Their Chiefe Adrestus and Amphius.

Adrestus, and stout Amphius led; who did their Sire displease,
(Merops Percosius) that exceld, all Troy in heauenly skill,
Of futures-searching prophesie: for much against his will,

His sonnes were agents in those armes: whom since they disobeyd;
The Fates, in letting slip their threds, their hastie valures staid.

Who in Porcotes, Practius; Arisbe did abide.

Percosians, Sestians, Abidens, Arisbæians, led by Asius.

Who Sestus and Abidus bred, Hyrtacides did guide:
Prince Asius Hyrtacides, that through great Selees force,
Brought from Arisba to that fight, the great and fierie horse.

Pyleus, and Hypotheus, the stout Pelasgians led,

The Pelasgians. Their chiefe, Hypotheus, and Pyleus.

Of them Larissas fruitfull soyle, before had nourished:
These were Pelasgian Pithus sonnes, sonne of Tentamidas.

The Thracian guides were Pyrous, and valiant Acamas.

The Thracians. Their chiefe Pyrous & Acamas. Euphemus Capt. of the Ciconians. Pyrechmes Commander of the Pæons.

Of all that the impetuous flood, of Hellespont enclosd,
Euphemus, the Ciconian troopes, in his command disposd;
Who from Trezenius Ceades, right nobly did descend.

Pyrechmes did the Peons rule, that crooked bowes do bend.
From Axius out of Amidon, he had them in command:
From Axius, whose most beautious streame, still ouerflowes the land.

Pylemen with the well arm'd heart, the Paphlagonians led,

Pylemē captain of the Paphlagonians.

From Enes, where the race of mules, fit for the plough is bred:
The men that broad Cytorus bounds, and Sesamus enfold,
About Parthenius loftie floud, in houses much extold;
From Cromna and Ægialus, the men that armes did beare,
And Eurithymus situate high, Pylemens soldiers were.

Epistrophus and Dius did, the Halizonians guide,

Halizonians, their captaine Epistrophus and Dius.

Far-fetcht from Alybe, where first, the siluer mines were tride.

Chronius, and Augur Eunomus, the Mysians did command,

The Mysians. Eunomus and Chronius.

Who could not with his auguries, the strength of death withstand;
But suffred it beneath the stroke, of great Æacides,
In Xanthus; where he made more soules, diue to the Stygian seas.

Phorcys and faire Ascanius, the Phrygians brought to warre;

The Phrygian. Their Chiefes Phorcis and Ascanius.

Well train'd for battell, and were come, out of Ascania farre.
With Methles, and with Antiphus (Pylemens sonnes) did fight,
The men of Mezon, whom the fenne, Gygæa brought to light.

And those Mæonians that beneath, the mountaine Tmolus sprong;

The Mæonians. Antiphus and Methles captaines. The Caribæ, and Milesians led by Amphimacus and Naustes.

The rude vnletterd Cariba, that barbarous were of tongue,
Did vnder Naustes colours march, and young Amphimachus,
(Nomyons famous sonnes) to whom, the mountaine Phthirorus,
That with the famous wood is crown'd; Miletus, Micales,
That hath so many loftie markes, for men that loue the seas;
The crooked armes Meander bow'd, with his so snakie flood,
Resign'd for conduct the choice youth, of all their martiall brood.
The foole Amphimachus, to field, brought gold to be his wracke;
Proude-girlelike that doth euer beare, her dowre vpon her backe;
Which wise Achilles markt; slue him, and tooke his gold in strife,
At Xanthus floud; so little death, did feare his golden life.

The Lycians whose Commanders were Sarpedon & Glaucus.

Sarpedon led the Lycians, and Glaucus vnreprou'd,
From Lycia and the gulfie flood, of Xanthus farre remou'd.

The end of the second Booke.